Astronomers have found a “wind nebula” around a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star for the first time.
Neutron stars are commonly found as pulsars – incredibly energetic fast spinning neutron stars which release radio, visible light, X-rays and gamma rays.
They have strong magnetic fields that are 100 billion to 10 trillion …

Re: Humbled

I see at least one person didn't like my post. Would it help to say that I don't have anything against the Flying Spaghetti Monster, its noodly appendages nor its followers? I mean, you know, some of my best friends are Pastafarians (etc.)?

Re: Magnetars are "rare" ?

That's a pretty low percentage, but your calculations do in fact suggest there's a million of the things out there, and a million of anything that's as bells as a magnetar has to be considered in some sense as "a lot".

Then again, given that we've only found 29 out of the million magnetars theoretically out there, suggests that we have only observed %0.0029 of the galaxy according to the magnetar metric, which means that in accordance with certain authorities, space is "frikkin big".

What we can all agree on is that as some of the densest, most magnetic matter out there, once we get our hands on one of these things and mine it, we are going to set up the most badass headphone company in the history of mankind.

And if it is, then there is an infinite number of magnetars. If we do attain the necessary technological level to allow us to mine those babies, it will ensure a bright future for said badass phone company.

You can spread out the matter you've got until the cows come home, but you can still only squish what you've got in to some finite amount of neutron stars. Even if you keep pulling them apart and squishing them back together, as you say, you're on the clock against the heat death of the universe.